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The Holy Father has called Fr. Fabio BAGGIO CS and Fr. Michael Czerny S.J. to assist him in the direction of the Section “Refugees and Migrants” with the title of Under-Secretaries. The Statutes of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development establish a Section which “specifically oversees matters regarding refugees and migrants” (Art. 1, § 4) and which is placed ad tempus under the guidance of the Holy Father. We offer to Fr. Fabio our special congratulations and best wishes for a fruitful ministry for the good of the Church in the service of migrants.

On December 6, at 11:15 am at the Aula Pio XI, the Faculty of Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, paid tribute to Father Innocenzo Cardellini, emeritus professor of Old Testament Exegesis, on the occasion of the publication of miscellany in his honor: "Testi e contesti. Scritti in onore di Innocenzo Cardellini nel suo 70 compleanno" Paolo Merlo e Angelo Passaro (eds) EDB, Bologna, 2016

On 25 November 2016 at the Auditorium John Paul II of the Pontifical Urbaniana University (PUU) the Academic Act of the Scalabrini International Migration Institute was held. This year for the first time the act was organized in collaboration with the Higher Institute of Catechesis and Missionary Spirituality (ISCSM) of PUU. The event's theme was "Migration and Conflicts" and, in the following order, prof. F. Battistelli, sociologist at the University La Sapienza of Rome, Prof. C. Simonelli, theologian of the Theological Institute San Zeno in Verona, S. E. Mons. S. M. Tomasi, added secretary at the Pontifical Council Justice and Peace, and [...]

On 25 August 2016 at the premises of the Australian Catholic University (ACU)  the fifth edition of Bishop Joseph Grech Colloquium on Ethics and Migration was held. It is an event that has already become a tradition for the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (ACMRO) of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. The title of the 2016 Colloquium was Christian-Muslim Relations in a Persecuted Rregion and the Impact on Immigration, a hot theme in the global scenario of human mobility nowadays. Prof. Fabio Baggio presented a contribution entitled Conflict Driven Migration to Europe: When Humanistic Principles are at Stake.

On 18 - 21 July 2016 the 7th edition of the Summer School on Human Mobility and Global Justice titled, "A Sea of ​​Hope. Forced migrants on Europe's doorstep," was held in Lampedusa. Organized by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, in collaboration with the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI), the Migrantes Foundation and the Scalabrinian Agency for Development Cooperation (ASCS), the seventh edition of the Summer School offered interdisciplinary lessons, testimonies of support and service, workshops and guided tours. There were over 50 participants, including university students, pastoral agents and professionals on human mobility. Download here the brochure with the Summer School program.

Martedì 21 giugno 2016 ci ha lasciato improvvisamente, a soli 57 anni, P. Mario Santillo, professore del SIMI. Un infarto fulminante ha stroncato la sua vita nella sua residenza di Buenos Aires. P. Santillo, missionario scalabriniano, era un apprezzato sociologo esperto di mobilità umana e politiche migratorie in America Latina. Tra le ultime collaborazioni con il SIMI ricordiamo i corso "Polithce migratorie comparate" impartito nel secondo semestre e la moderazione generale nella Escuela de Verano che l'istituto organizza annualmente in collaborazion con la Universitat de Valencia. Il SIMI porge le più sentite condoglianze alla sua famiglia.

On 13-16 June 2016, the Master Interncional de Migraciones of the Universitat de Valencia, Spain, in collaboration with SIMI, Rome, and CIEMI, Paris, held the eighth edition of the Escuela de Verano MIM. This edition, which was celebrated in the premises of the Faculty of Psychology of the Universitat de Valencia, was titled, Migrantes, refugiados y crisis de la Unión Europea (Migrants, Refugees and the Crisis of the Eropean Union). In four days the MIM summer school offered lectures of professors and international experts and interactive workshops with the direct involvement of over 100 students who enrolled in the school. The  classes were [...]

In continuation with the cycle of events initiated last year, SIMI, in collaboration with the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Postgraduate Program on Studies of Religion Sciences) and the Centro de Estudos Migratorios ( CEM ) of the Scalabrini Missionaries, held the second "International Symposium on Religion and Migration." The theme chosen for this second edition was "African Diaspora and socio-religious processes." The symposium took place in the Perdizes Campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo from 6 to 8 June 2016. The various sessions were enriched by the presence of professors and international experts, who presented from different perspectives ahow African migration, [...]

On Friday 27 May 2016, at 15:30, at Via Dandolo 58, Rome, a Round Table on "Young Italians in Australia" was held. The event, was organized by SIMI, the Centro Studi Emigrazione Roma (CSER) and the Scalabrinian Communication Office (UCoS), in collaboration with the Migrantes Foundation, aimed at promoting a debate on the recent publication of the same name, resulting from a research carried out among the Italian immigrants arrived in the austral continent in recent years. Dr. Delfina Licata (Migrantes Foundation) and Matthew Maffesanti (director) presented the book and a related video. Then the qualified intervention of Fr. Maurizio Pettena, Director [...]

Saturday, 21 May 2016, at 10.00 hrs., in its operational headquarters located in Via Dandolo 58, Roma, SIMI, in collaboration with the Faculty of Moral Theology of the Pontifical Gregorian University, held a meeting with the Phd candidates of different Roman universities, who are developing research in the field of human mobility. The gathering, which was welcomed with enthusiasm by various universities in Rome, was open to all students, who are interested in initiating a dialogue with professors and students, who are studying the phenomenon of human mobility from different disciplinary proposettives. The main objective of the meeting was to explore the possibility [...]